Link to ImagePeter Baker15 hours ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 21 - 4:34pmNorth Carolina orders a new election for a House seat after the Republican candidate abandons his defense and calls for a new vote. ⁦@alanblinder⁩ https://t.co/C7UnKmFwcsPeter Baker15 hours ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 21 - 4:21pm“He’s kept his agency’s head down and vanished like a stick insect”: Dan Coats struggles to protect an intelligence community under attack from the president who appointed him. @kgilsinanhttps://t.co/oPVmQVERGKPeter Baker16 hours ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 21 - 3:09pmIn violation of international convention, Russians have refused to allow US diplomats access to American investor Michael Calvey, who has been indicted on fraud charges that many assume are politically trumped up allegations.
https://t.co/dj3pCsifTLPeter Baker22 hours ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 21 - 9:12amRT @charlie_savage: It's official: @deanbaquet and @BumillerNYT announce that the great @carolrosenberg is bringing her Guantanamo franchise to The New York Times. Welcome my fellow Miami Herald alum friend -- I'm thrilled to work with you again, rather than have to compete with you!Peter Baker22 hours ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 21 - 9:05amUSA Today scoured hundreds of yearbooks for racist photos. They found one published by their own editor. ⁦@timelfrink_dc⁩ https://t.co/jsJgdpcEdhPeter Baker22 hours ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 21 - 9:01amRT @NYTimesPR: 👂👂 Hear, hear! @theobalcomb, who helped launch “The Daily” and has overseen its meteoric rise, becomes executive producer of “The Daily” and News. https://t.co/dkF2GLYeoDPeter Baker22 hours ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 21 - 9:01amRT @NYTimesPR: 🎉 We're proud to announce that the @nytimes has been recognized as one of @FastCompany's Most Innovative Companies in Media for 2019. https://t.co/5evUjMrJOvhttps://t.co/ThCOQZX7iD

Link to ImagePeter Baker23 hours ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 21 - 8:19amGreat to see. https://t.co/xR2XnV5XR0Peter Baker23 hours ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 21 - 8:11amRT @holmescnn: “What I think we’re seeing is the unraveling of what remained of the cold war nuclear accords.” - Susan Glasser @sbg1 on #Putin#Russia#missileshttps://t.co/SiIkzOG8d9Peter Baker1 day ago:&nbsp &nbspWednesday Feb 20 - 11:13pmRT @jotted: Egyptian journalists have borne the brunt of repression, w/ dozens imprisoned or forced into exile. But of late, a lack of pushback from the US has emboldened Egypt’s security forces to take stronger action against representatives of Western news outlets, including expulsion https://t.co/ZbqssDDLHBPeter Baker1 day ago:&nbsp &nbspWednesday Feb 20 - 3:11pm"The phrase 'enemy of the people' is not just false, it’s dangerous,” says @AGSNYT. "It has an ugly history of being wielded by dictators and tyrants who sought to control public information.” https://t.co/1HnHtHKaUuPeter Baker2 days ago:&nbsp &nbspTuesday Feb 19 - 5:44pmJustice Thomas says its time to rethink the Supreme Court's New York Times v. Sullivan ruling protecting newspapers, writing that it and successor rulings "were policy-driven decisions masquerading as constitutional law." ⁦@adamliptak⁩ https://t.co/ne6KwIL9NpPeter Baker2 days ago:&nbsp &nbspTuesday Feb 19 - 4:55pmAmerican investor Michael Calvey became a legend in the Russian market, in part because of his reputed aversion to any kind of foul play and focus on industries and firms unlikely to attract the attention of Russian authorities. Now he’s in Russian prison. https://t.co/Em9xsWpTx7Peter Baker2 days ago:&nbsp &nbspTuesday Feb 19 - 4:53pmLack of a form means US Embassy can’t even discuss Paul Whelan’s case with his family weeks after his arrest in Moscow. @ak_mack @RobbieGramerhttps://t.co/kYNC8JYa2kPeter Baker2 days ago:&nbsp &nbspTuesday Feb 19 - 4:46pmEgypt detains @nytimes correspondent @ddknyt after he arrives in Cairo, seizes his phone, holds him incommunicado for seven hours without food or water and then expels him from the country. @declanwalshhttps://t.co/NcMjYJ1u1CPeter Baker2 days ago:&nbsp &nbspTuesday Feb 19 - 4:42pmRT @sbg1: He also memorably called Bill Clinton the ‘pander bear’ https://t.co/p2uB6Is0jvPeter Baker2 days ago:&nbsp &nbspTuesday Feb 19 - 7:55amGuess what ⁦@gerryshih⁩ found in a remote part of Tajikistan near the Afghan border? Chinese troops, who say they've been there for three or four years. One more example of Beijing's expanding global footprint. https://t.co/hCbNS09diuPeter Baker3 days ago:&nbsp &nbspTuesday Feb 19 - 7:31amSanders kicks off another campaign for the White House, though this time he will be contending with a crowded and diverse field of other candidates for the Democratic nomination who have adopted his populist liberal mantle. ⁦@melbournecoal⁩ https://t.co/t9FyY0iGSGPeter Baker3 days ago:&nbsp &nbspMonday Feb 18 - 10:10amAustralia just passed Switzerland as the richest country in the world as measured by household median wealth. ⁦@NellieBowles⁩ https://t.co/VeHHL778yYPeter Baker3 days ago:&nbsp &nbspMonday Feb 18 - 10:08amIn a worst-case scenario, the Bank of England calculated that Brexit could shrink the British economy by 8 percent and send house prices plunging by 30 percent. ⁦@amietsang⁩ ⁦@MattGoldstein26⁩ https://t.co/GUNr35Syw0Peter Baker3 days ago:&nbsp &nbspMonday Feb 18 - 9:26amIn the British city where a former Russian spy was poisoned, someone climbed the scaffolding of the local cathedral to fly a Russian flag. The town didn't think it was funny. ⁦@EllenBarryNYT⁩ https://t.co/6LLzcSoorOPeter Baker3 days ago:&nbsp &nbspMonday Feb 18 - 9:24amAs Sanders prepares to announce another run for the White House as early as this week, his weak track record with black voters — a vital base in the Democratic Party — could be a potential threat to his candidacy. ⁦@melbournecoal⁩ https://t.co/uNTPnsnjiPPeter Baker3 days ago:&nbsp &nbspMonday Feb 18 - 9:20amTrump leaves a mark on the nation's judiciary, making history by installing more appeals court judges in his first two years than any other president, with still more to come. ⁦@amarimow⁩ https://t.co/Jq9xzgpi63Peter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspMonday Feb 18 - 2:34amHey, thanks for that. Means a lot coming from you, it really does. https://t.co/pGvaqyBxXEPeter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 10:31pmJust because other presidents have at times been wrong in their treatment of the press doesn’t mean this is therefore normal and acceptable. (4)Peter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 10:29pmAnd no previous president I can remember vilified the press across the board using Soviet phraseology like “enemies of the people” or incited crowds into shouting at reporters standing in the back, to the point that one was physically attacked just the other day. (3)Peter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 10:28pm@nytimes Those were disputes over the publication of classified information. In today’s case, the president is seeking “retribution” because an actor made fun of him, not because national security was jeopardized. (2)Peter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 10:28pmWhen Obama’s Justice Department tried to pressure reporters to reveal sources or obtain their records, including our colleagues at the @nytimes, we fought it vigorously. We believed those actions were outrageous and chilling to First Amendment coverage. (1) https://t.co/RW2RFT8gqAPeter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 9:48pmRT @carolynryan: A broadsheet covers a lot 🙃 https://t.co/9tqNsDUjbhPeter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 9:45pmSorry, simply not true. I've interviewed 7 presidents and covered 4 full time over last couple decades. All complained about the press and at times lashed out. But none of them, Republican or Democrat, engaged in the kind of "enemy of the people" rhetoric Trump routinely does. https://t.co/GjenWJ1FG4Peter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 5:35pmA good example to remember. Pretty tame compared to these days, but a good example. And when other news outlets stood up for Fox, the White House backed down and admitted it was a mistake. Also a good example. https://t.co/VbiSTtPPNDPeter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 1:26pmRT @nytpolitics: Don’t remember President Obama’s near-war with North Korea as described by President Trump? Neither do the people who were working for Obama at the time, writes @peterbakernythttps://t.co/WaKyy4BTQpPeter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 12:26pmRT @meridithmcgraw: Just in: Acting Sec of Defense Shanahan just told reporters he hasn’t determined if there is a military necessity for a border wall or how much money Defense will even spend. Shanahan said he hasn’t yet spoken to President Trump.Peter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 12:25pmIt's become commonplace enough in the past two years that it no longer gets much notice. But it's worth remembering that no other president in decades publicly threatened "retribution" against a television network because it satirized him.Peter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 11:11amHarsh policies Trump has introduced to crack down on asylum seekers may already be achieving some of their intended effects and convincing migrants not to come to the US. ⁦@jdelreal⁩ ⁦@itscaitlinhd⁩ ⁦@mirjordan⁩ https://t.co/8xXU04uOQZPeter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 10:40amFifty years after Armstrong and Aldrin took that giant leap, a new race to the moon is on, including the US, China, India, Israel and a host of would-be modern-day 49ers looking for gold or its lunar equivalent. ⁦@wapodavenport⁩ https://t.co/usJrDsZgnbPeter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 10:31amRIP Pat Caddell, a political savant, a visionary to some and a mad scientist to others, whose force of personality and brilliance kept him in the middle of presidential politics for years, writes ⁦@jonward11⁩, author of "Camelot's End." https://t.co/7AyAroPecUPeter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 9:41am"They need to look elsewhere for a scapegoat": Deripaska rejects role in Russia scandal. His wealth has been cut from $6.7 billion to $3.6 billion in the last year, in part due to sanctions. ⁦@antontroian⁩ https://t.co/9o8xexcaC5Peter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 9:37amKamala Harris leaps to unwarranted conclusions in tax tweet, finds fact-checker extraordinaire ⁦@GlennKesslerWP⁩ https://t.co/yCB6s6FOBRPeter Baker4 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSunday Feb 17 - 9:19am"The impact is horrendous": In Yemen, the Houthis are estimated to have laid more than a million mines, more than one for every 30 people and as high as that in any country since World War II. ⁦@ddknyt⁩ https://t.co/V2Wf6FZQehPeter Baker5 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSaturday Feb 16 - 9:12pmNauert withdrew from consideration because she had a nanny who was in the United States legally but did not have the proper work visa, according to people familiar with the process. ⁦@anniekarni⁩ ⁦@maggieNYT⁩ https://t.co/gjzMSbmlCmPeter Baker5 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSaturday Feb 16 - 7:01pmRT @rodnordland: She’s a Force of Nature, and She Just Declared War on Peace With the Taliban https://t.co/78sjkRJ9uEPeter Baker5 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSaturday Feb 16 - 2:13pmRT @herszenhorn: @sbg1@peterbakernyt@GlennKesslerWP "Whatever I say, you will write what you want," Lavrov said in response to @joshrogin@washingtonpost question on #Syria. "So do it."Peter Baker5 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSaturday Feb 16 - 2:09pmRT @sbg1: Reminder: Russia took over Crimea. We need @GlennKesslerWP Pinocchio on the scene at Munich>>> https://t.co/Hmqu8MSE0zPeter Baker5 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSaturday Feb 16 - 1:33pm"He told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea," Trump says of Obama. But Obama aides say he never told them that nor were military options under serious consideration. https://t.co/eAVyi6vlRFPeter Baker5 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSaturday Feb 16 - 11:50amForced to confront arguably the biggest surrender of his presidency, Trump did what he often does after a loss: respond with distraction, digression and entertainment, through a fog of words, writes the masterful @anniekarni⁩ https://t.co/iEy9K8kAo5Peter Baker5 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSaturday Feb 16 - 11:49amUncharted territory: Presidents have declared national emergencies five dozen times under a 1970s law but never to spend money that Congress has explicitly refused to give them. ⁦@charlie_savage⁩ https://t.co/yVGEB0WvZqPeter Baker5 days ago:&nbsp &nbspSaturday Feb 16 - 11:46amSenate Republican aides see as many as 10 GOP senators voting with Democrats to reject Trump's emergency declaration, enough to pass a measure of disapproval but not enough to override a veto. ⁦@hillhulse⁩ ⁦@GlennThrush⁩ https://t.co/Z3LWh1SPO2Peter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 11:00pmRT @nytimes: To justify redirecting federal funds to a wall, President Trump made a litany of assertions about crime, drugs and other issues on the southern border. Nearly all were misleading, exaggerated or false. https://t.co/ar32gKDrsrPeter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 10:59pmRT @kenvogel: NEW TRANSCRIPT: The judge describes MANAFORT's misrepresentation of KILIMNIK's understanding of Russia-aligned lobbying as "a problematic attempt to shield his Russian conspirator from liability and it gives rise to LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHERE HIS LOYALTIES LIE ."Peter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 7:36pmPublic Citizen files suit to stop Trump emergency declaration on behalf of three landowners in South Texas who were told by the government that it would seek to build a border wall on their properties if money was available in 2019.Peter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 7:13pmAurora Shooting Updates: 5 Dead and Several Others Wounded via @NYTimeshttps://t.co/8Cik91A0UhPeter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 6:56pmRT @hsu_spencer: Rayful Edmond III, the 1980s-era drug lord said to have introduced crack cocaine to Washington D.C., and whose life was chronicled in American Gangster, books and rap songs, is ready to be released early from prison after cooperating with the government in other cases, U.S. says. https://t.co/fzJfePyan7Peter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 6:55pmOn first reference, yes, then on subsequent references it’s the same — Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer and Mr. McConnell and Mr. Ryan. https://t.co/Rd54eEXRC7Peter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 6:54pmOften true, yes. And in this case, he was the incumbent at the time of the action in the sentence (2014) so “former” wouldn’t have been right in that instance. https://t.co/ogmIEhdw9bPeter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 6:34pmThanks for checking. No disrespect. NYT style for any incumbent president is President Lastname on first reference and Mr. Lastname (or Ms. Lastname) on all subsequent references. That’s been true for every president going back more than a century. Thanks for the interest. https://t.co/ZpQTCndgwXPeter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 2:35pmTrump has signed the spending bill passed by Congress, ending any threat of another government shutdown for the rest of the fiscal year, according to @PressSecPeter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 2:23pmIn 2015, Trump tweeted that if the national debt topped $21 trillion, “Obama will have effectively bankrupted our country.” It has now topped $22 trillion and neither Trump, nor either political party seems all that concerned. @BCAppelbaumhttps://t.co/ioCWKqplZIPeter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 2:06pmTrump has now signed the emergency declaration and the White House has released a copy: “The current situation at the southern border presents a border security and humanitarian crisis that threatens core national security interests and constitutes a national emergency."Peter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 10:51amTrump declares a national emergency at the border to access billions of dollars to build a wall after being rejected by Congress. https://t.co/gZ2wAfv7EPPeter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 10:44amRT @sbg1: My Letter from Washington, national emergency edition: https://t.co/nunmSxcJFBPeter Baker6 days ago:&nbsp &nbspFriday Feb 15 - 9:36amBehind the scenes, a president who balked and the Senate ally who coaxed him into signing a compromise spending package — at a price. The inside story as only @GlennThrush can tell it. https://t.co/0pjiAfd4PdPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 10:58pmRT @RohdeD: Trump's "emergency" is dragging congressional Republicans into a whole new fight. @sbg1https://t.co/vzdUQtRmUGPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 10:57pmRT @11thHour: Day 756: Revelations from Andrew McCabe are raising a LOT of eyebrows tonight. Plus, Trump seems ready to declare a natl. emergency.
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Link to ImagePeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 10:57pmBoy, that was a loooong time ago. But a really great movie by my friend @rjcutler that really captures some essential truths about modern politics that are still relevant today. https://t.co/Hw1Qr9vweEPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 9:08pmHouse passes spending bill 300-128, sending it to Trump for his signature. ⁦@ESCochrane⁩ ⁦@maggieNYT⁩ https://t.co/MCavP854QtPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 9:04pmRT @ESCochrane: Democrats broke into scattered applause when the bill passed 300-128.Peter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 8:54pmRT @ESCochrane: Spending bill has the votes to pass — more than 250 — but it’s still openPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 8:51pmRT @nytimesworld: Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday suffered another humiliating defeat over Britain’s tortured exit from the European Union when a fragile truce within her Conservative Party collapsed, exposing widening fault lines in Parliament. https://t.co/3NwX8NAJbFPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 8:50pmWhite House believes it can put together about $8 billion for the wall, adding reprogrammed money and funds to be accessed through a national emergency declaration to the $1.375 billion in the spending bill.Peter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 6:15pmRT @sbg1: The Republicans’ New Strategy for Dealing with the Emergency That Is Trump: Pray https://t.co/gzsK8X66snPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 4:20pmTrump weighs 243 pounds, according to medical checkup, putting his BMI just above 30, the line for obesity. His cholesterol is 196, just below the line for risk. His doctor proclaims him in “very good health overall."Peter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 3:11pmMcConnell Says Trump Plans to Declare National Emergency to Build Border Wall https://t.co/MCavP854QtPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 1:02pmSenate Confirms William Barr as Attorney General ⁦@npfandos⁩ ⁦@ktbenner⁩ https://t.co/lChHZYJmX4Peter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 12:28pmWait til he gets to "shiit-ake mushrooms," which our kid came to love. https://t.co/hfZymzO0QYPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 11:41amRT @NYTNational: With Gov. Ralph Northam reeling from the blackface controversy and looking to make right, black leaders see a chance to push him to create policies that benefit black communities. https://t.co/mixSPBSd4BPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 11:19amIn 2016, Trump promised to eliminate the entire national debt — not the annual deficit but the all the accumulated deficits — in eight years. Instead, it has risen from $19.9 trillion to $22.0 trillion since he has taken office.
https://t.co/Fn6EwfPwlqhttps://t.co/J2nZeJbhDTPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 11:11amRT @MCJalonick: After Senate opening prayer, Grassley leans into mic and adds: "Let's all pray that the president will have wisdom to sign the bill so the government doesn’t shut down."Peter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 10:41amRT @nytimes: A Saudi app lets male “guardians” track women’s movements, or even stop them from getting on a plane. Apple and Google offer it in their app stores — are they complicit? https://t.co/N4fHernDDqPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 10:37amKudlow tells reporters that the deficits are not alarming because they remain a reasonable share of the overall economy, around 4 percent of GDP. "I don't think that's an issue, a problem,” he says.Peter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 10:30amRT @PoliticsProse: Saturday: Amy S. Greenberg discusses the world of First Lady Sarah Polk in LADY FIRST https://t.co/enWfPnpJz5https://t.co/NKsqBDy8Iy

Link to ImagePeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 10:29amRT @nytimesworld: It was an accident, not a crime, prosecutors say. Prince Philip, 97, will not be charged in the crash that injured two women. https://t.co/vJaUewMq8ePeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 10:29amThe AOC Effect: Party insurgents are targeting as many as a half-dozen members of Congress in and around New York City over what it means to be a Democrat and a progressive in the age of Trump. @ShaneGoldmacherhttps://t.co/4TwZBPELMwPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 10:22amIn canceling California’s bullet train project, Newsom may have written the final chapter in a painful national story for Democrats, one last disappointment for the star-crossed high-speed rail program launched by Obama and train-loving Biden @MikeGrunwaldhttps://t.co/iJuc7X9qFIPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 10:01amRT @jasondhorowitz: Opportunity Knocks Off https://t.co/nSjJyPQn2DPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 9:47amMcCabe confirms @nytimes report that top Justice officials were so alarmed by the Comey firing that they discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. ⁦@adamgoldmanNYT⁩ ⁦@matthewhaag⁩ https://t.co/6RV2yoNjp0Peter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 9:10am"My life is not normal. It will never be like before. I used to get out of school and go play soccer. All I wanted was to play soccer professionally. I played forward. Now I don’t do anything." A year after Parkland. ⁦⁦@PatriciaMazzei⁩ https://t.co/oFQcd9oHSvPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 8:26amRT @eosnos: Rod MacFarquhar was the China scholar’s China scholar. He was admired by so many, and he inspired so many. He had depth, wit, narrative power, and, most of all, moral clarity. I never would’ve studied China if not for him. The @nytimes obit: https://t.co/PXIsqVlTXBhttps://t.co/uC2V707NltPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 8:25amWill there be a Supreme Court retirement this year? Not RBG — @JeffreyToobin wonders if Clarence Thomas, the longest serving justice, might step down, giving Trump an opportunity for a third appointment to the highest bench. https://t.co/4U4fW0npoIPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 7:53amRT @mkraju: Rep. Ilhan Omar in no mood to talk about her controversies this week. First, she said: “No thank you” when asked to comment on Trump saying she should resign. Second time I saw her, she yelled: “Are you serious?” when I tried to question her.Peter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspThursday Feb 14 - 7:49amRT @hillhulse: I loved that thing. RIP Opportunity. https://t.co/iW2df5so6CPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspWednesday Feb 13 - 9:36pmVery cool digital map of Opportunity's 14-year quest on the Martian surface. ⁦@JonathanCorum⁩ https://t.co/xbfwKTx2UfPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspWednesday Feb 13 - 9:32pmOpportunity, the longest-lived robot ever sent from Earth to the surface of another planet, roamed the red plains of Mars for more than 14 years, snapping photos and revealing astonishing glimpses into the planet’s distant past. @changhttps://t.co/QaMM9kYEDqPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspWednesday Feb 13 - 4:36pmHouse votes to end military aid for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, a rare move to curb presidential war powers that underscored anger with Trump’s support for Saudi Arabia even after the Khashoggi killing. ⁦@CatieEdmondson⁩ ⁦@charlie_savage⁩ https://t.co/psxUniykIiPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspWednesday Feb 13 - 2:08pmTrump administration has accelerated a secret program to sabotage Iran’s missiles and rockets, part of an expanding campaign by the United States to undercut Tehran’s military and isolate its economy. ⁦@SangerNYT⁩ ⁦@WilliamJBroad⁩ https://t.co/3OvYDMsTOCPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspWednesday Feb 13 - 12:40pmTrump repeats that he doesn’t want another government shutdown but holds back saying whether he will sign the border deal.Peter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspWednesday Feb 13 - 12:10pmCongratulations to Binya! Great new opportunity but we will miss his brilliant and insightful writing on economics on the front page. Make sure to pre-order his book, “The Economist’s Hour,” due out in September. https://t.co/PPi4J7Tlg8https://t.co/DA1WZnSiMEPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspWednesday Feb 13 - 12:06pm. @jkirchick writes that anti-gay innuendo targeting Lindsey Graham is no more acceptable from the left than it was from the right. https://t.co/SdgtEoNNpFPeter Baker1 week ago:&nbsp &nbspWednesday Feb 13 - 11:59amRT @Fahrenthold: A brave journalist standing up for the truth in Duterte’s Philippines. https://t.co/7kXanlFFZ1